International Meeting on Health

and Environment:Challenges for the Future

Istituto Superiore di SanitàRome, December 9 - 11, 2009

PROGRAMME

International Meeting on Health

and Environment:Challenges for the Future

Istituto Superiore di SanitàRome, December 9 - 11, 2009

PROGRAMME

The Meeting is organized by the Department of the Environment and Primary Pre-vention of the Italian National Institute for Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS)with the scientific patronage of the Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory andSea, Italian Ministry for Health, and World Health Organization. The Meeting has beenfinancially supported by the Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory and Sea.

Meeting Chairperson

Alessandro di Domenico (ISS)

International Steering Committee

Roger Aertgeerts (WHO) Peter Calow (University of Sheffield, UK) Donato Di Monte (Parkinson's Institute, CA, USA) Heidelore Fielder (UNEP) Corrado L. Galli (University of Milan, I) Dorota Jarosinska (EEA) Larry Needham (CDC, CA, USA) Miquel Porta (IMIM, ES)

ISS Scientific and Organizing Committee

Alessandro Alimonti Simonetta GemmaLuca Lucentini Laura ManciniFrancesco PetrucciEmanuela Testai

Technical and Organizing Secretariat

Silvana Caciolli

PROGRAMME

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

08.30 Participant registration

09.30 Opening ceremony and welcome addresses by theMeeting ChairItalian National Institute for HealthItalian Ministry for HealthItalian Ministry for Environment and Territory and Sea

Plenary session 1A (Aula Pocchiari)HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGES - THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF WATERChairs: Roger Aertgeerts, Giuseppe Cavarretta

10.00 Changes in climate, changes in water, changes in healthJos Timmerman

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Climate and water - Addressing environmental determinants of health in adaptation: the lesson learnedLuciana Sinisi

11.15 Dynamic and toxicity of P. rubescens (a toxic cyanobacteria) in different lakes: the need for an integrated approach for monitoring program designSusanna Vichi, Mara Stefanelli, Simona Scardala, Maura Manganelli,Francesca Palazzo, Simonetta Gemma, Fabrizio Scialanca, Paolo Andreani, Enzo Funari, Emanuela Testai

11.30 Discussion

Plenary session 1B (Aula Pocchiari)HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGES - THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF WATERChairs: Jan Cortvriend, Giuliana Gasparrini

12.00 Drinking water and climate changesJan Cortvriend

12.30 Unprecedented cyanobacterial bloom and microcystin production in a drinkingwater reservoir in the South of Italy: a model for emergency response and riskmanagementLuca Lucentini, Massimo Ottaviani, Sara Bogialli, Emanuele Ferretti,Enrico Veschetti, Rosa Giovanna, Concetta Ladalardo, Matteo CannarozziDe Grazia, Nicola Ungaro, Rosaria Petruzzelli, Gianni Tartari, Licia Guzzella, Marina Mingazzini, Diego Copetti

12.45 An Italian approach for local management actions after flooding eventsStefania Marcheggiani, Mario Carere, Riccardo Grifoni, Camilla Puccinelli, Enzo Funari, Laura Mancini

13.00 From past to better public health programme planning for possible future global threats: case studies applied to infection controlRoberte Manigat, Jean Claude André, Michel Duprat

13.15 Discussion

13.30 Lunch and poster viewing

Poster session 1: Topic 1 - 4 (Aula Marotta)

Plenary session 2 (Aula Pocchiari)PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHChairs: Miquel Porta, Marcello Spanò

15.00 Persistent organic pollutants: exposed individuals and exposed populationsMiquel Porta

15.30 Endometriosis and persistent organic pollutants: results of a case-controlstudy on Italian women of reproductive ageMaria Grazia Porpora, Emanuela Medda, Annalisa Abballe, Simone Bolli, Isabella De Angelis, Alessandro di Domenico, Annamaria Ferro, Anna Maria Ingelido, Antonella Maggi, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici,Elena De Felip

15.45 Exposure to PCBs and genetic polymorphisms of drug metabolizing enzyme in the susceptibility to endometriosis: a gene-environment interactionSusanna Vichi, Simonetta Gemma, Anna Maria Ingelido, Annalisa Abballe, Maria Grazia Porpora, Annamaria Ferro, Emanuela Medda, Lorenza Nisticò, Elena De Felip, Emanuela Testai

16.00 Discussion

16.30 Coffee break

Plenary session 3 (Aula Pocchiari)URBAN AIR QUALITY OUTDOOR VS INDOORChairs: Dorota Jarosinska, Nicola Pirrone

17.00 Air quality and human health - The urban environment perspectiveDorota Jarosinska

17.30 Poverty and the challenge of urban environmental health in NigeriaGeoffrey Nkawa

17.45 Evaluation of the temporal variation of air quality in Rome, Italy, from 1999 to 2008Giorgio Cattani, Alessandro Di Menno di Bucchianico, Daniela Dina,Marco Inglessis, Carmelo Notaro, Gaetano Settimo, Giuseppe Viviano, Achille Marconi

18.00 Current status of ambient air quality in Lahore (2nd biggest city of Pakistan)Ghulam Hussain Qasim

18.15 Biomonitoring study of children exposed to different levels of pollution in the Hainaut ProvinceMarie-Christine Dewolf, Etienne Noël, Philippe Fierro, Wendy Fris, Pol Bouviez, Andrée Marijns, Charles Pestelecq, Wei-Hong Zhang

18.30 Discussion

19.00 End of session

19.00 Welcome cocktail

Parallel activity session (Aula Bovet)HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT NETWORK HENVINETChairs: Alena Bartonova, Gemma Calamandrei

14.30 Towards further integration of research results into decision making: health and environment networkAlena Bartonova, Hans Keune, Martin Krayer von Kraus, Hai-Ying Liu, Aileen Yang, the HENVINET Team

14.50 Knowledge evaluation methodology in environmental health - The HENVINETapproachMartin Krayer von Kraus, Hans Keune, Alena Bartonova, Hai-Ying Liu, Aileen Yang, the HENVINET Team

15.10 Chlorpyrifos and the evidence for effects on neuro-development in childhood: how well do the experts agree?Brooke Magnanti, Sara Correia Carreira, Margaret Saunders, Janna Koppe, Gemma Calamandrei, Hans Keune, Alena Bartonova, Martin Krayer von Kraus

15.30 HENVINET networking portal: web community joining health and environmentprofessionalsScott Randal, Peter van den Hazel, Michael Kobernus, Martin Krayer von Kraus,Aileen Yang, Alena Bartonova, the HENVINET team

15.50 Discussion

16.30 End of session

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Plenary session 4 (Aula Pocchiari)THE APPRAISAL OF HEALTH RISK FROM EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND BIOMONITORING DATAChairs: Larry Needham, Irene Figà-Talamanca

09.00 Ongoing human biomonitoring activities to assess the extent of exposure of the Italian general population to those POPs considered by the StockholmConvention and the UNECE Protocol: a joint effort of the Italian Ministry of theEnvironment and the ISSGiuliana Gasparrini, Elena De Felip

09.15 Predicted aerobic capacity of asthmatic children, derived from clinical studiesLene Lochte

09.30 Lead levels in umbilical cord blood in five Belgium maternity units predictive value of a risk questionnaire and interventionWei-Hong Zhang, Marie Christine Dewolf, Samia Hammadi, Wendy Fris, Etienne Noël, Sophie Alexander

09.45 Molecular and genetic factors influence on DNA repair efficiency and health hazardAntonina Cebulska-Wasilewska

10.00 Environment and Public Health (EPH) programme. Development at the Society for Research and Prevention on Environment and Health (European S.R.E.H.)Guy A. Magnus

10.15 Use of ERICA (Ecotoxicological Risk Index for a Complete Assessment) in risk communication and perception, a unique number for several parametersElena Boriani, Diego Baderna, Alessandro Mariani, Annamaria Segalini, Emilio Benfenati

10.30 Discussion

11.00 Coffee break

Plenary session 5 (Aula Pocchiari)EMERGING PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS - NEED FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN HEALTH IMPLICATIONSChairs: Peter Calow, Antonio Cassone

11.30 Climate change and emerging infectious disease threats to EuropePaul Hunter

12.00 Detection of genogroup IV Norovirus in environmental samples by reverse-transcriptase PCR/nested PCRGiuseppina La Rosa, Marcello Iaconelli, Manoochehr Pourshaban,Marta Fratini, Michele Muscillo

12.15 Surveillance of human adenoviruses in Italian sewage treatment plants by nested PCR analysis in the fiber and in the hexon coding regionsMarcello Iaconelli, Giuseppina La Rosa, Manoochehr Pourshaban,Valentina Spuri, Michele Muscillo

12.30 Emerging diseases in rural areas of the European Region: the example of campylobacteriosisStefania Marcheggiani, Monica Francesca Blasi, Laura Mancini, Enzo Funari

12.45 Discussion

13.15 Lunch and poster viewing

Poster session 2: topic 5 - 8 (Aula Marotta)

Plenary session 6 (Aula Pocchiari)THE ENVIRONMENTAL HYPOTHESIS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASESChairs: Donato Di Monte, Enrico Alleva

14.30 Neurotoxicants, alpha-synuclein, and Parkinson’s disease: experimental evidence in support of a role of environmental agents in neurodegenerative processesDonato Di Monte

15.00 Cyanobacteria and their toxins as possible risk factors in the etiopathogenesisof Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)Emanuela Testai, Enzo Funari, Nicola Vanacore, Giuseppe Stipa

15.15 The transgenic mouse over-expressing the hMTH1 hydrolase: a novel mouse model of extended life span and protection against neurodegenerationMaria Teresa Russo, Ilenia Ventura, Gabriele De Luca, Paolo Degan,Alberto Martire, Patrizia Popoli, Margherita Bignami

15.30 Discussion

16.00 Coffee break

ROUND TABLE (Aula Pocchiari)Chair: Christine Majewki (EFSA)

16.30 Goods globalization - Which threats for human health?Members of the International Steering Committee, EFSA, UNEP, Federchimica, ISS

18.00 End of session

20.00 Social dinner

Friday, December 11, 2009

Plenary session 7 (Aula Pocchiari)WASTE MANAGEMENTChairs: Heidelore Fiedler, Giovanni Andreottola

09.00 Hazardous chemicals emissions from open burning processes in a global contextHeidelore Fiedler

09.30 Treatment of leachate streams by a membrane bioreactorTeresa Castelo-Grande, Paulo A. Augusto, Paulo Monteiro,Angel M. Estevez, Domingos Barbosa

09.45 Understanding of health effects on decision making concerning wastemanagement: from evidence to action. General comments and proposalPaolo Lauriola

10.00 Management of health-care waste in IzmirAhmet Soysal, Hatice Şimşek, Dilek Soysal, Funda Alyu

10.15 Discussion

10.45 Coffee break

Plenary session 8 (Aula Pocchiari)THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTHChairs: Angelo Moretto, Raffaele Mattioli

11.15 Risk assessment of multiple pesticide residuesAngelo Moretto

11.45 Bioherbicide formulation (a review)Mohammad Taghi Alebrahim, Reza Ghorbani, Roghieh Majd

12.00 Relationship between POP background levels in agricultural environments and target levels in foods: a challenge for risk reduction of priority pollutants Annalaura Iamiceli, Roberto Miniero, Gianfranco Brambilla, Elena De Felip

12.15 ASTERisk, a tool to guide enforcement and monitoring of pesticides use Francesco Galimberti, Teresa Mammone, Angelo Moretto

12.30 The assessment of operator, bystander, and worker exposure to pesticides: approaches, tools, and needs Renato Cabella

12.45 Discussion

13.15 Lunch

ROUND TABLE (Aula Pocchiari)

Chair: Letizia Gabaglio (Scientific journalist)

14.30 Risk perception and risk communicationMembers of the EFSA, Federchimica, ISS

16.00 Award presentation

16.30 Closing of the Symposium

INVITED LECTURERS AND CHAIRPERSONS

Roger Aertgeerts - Regional Office for Europe, European Centre for Environment andHealth, World Health Organization, WHO, Rome, ItalyEnrico Alleva - Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Italian National Institutefor Health, ISS, Rome, ItalyGiovanni Andreottola - University of Trento, Trento, ItalyAlena Bartonova - Centre for Ecology and Economics, Norwegian Institute for AirResearch, NILU, Kjeller, NorwayGemma Calamandrei - Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Italian NationalInstitute for Health, ISS, Rome, ItalyPeter Calow - Danish Environmental Assessment Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark;University of Sheffield, United KingdomAntonio Cassone - Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immuno-MediatedDiseases, Italian National Institute for Health, ISS, Rome, ItalyGiuseppe Cavarretta - Earth and Environment Department, National ResearchCouncil, CNR, Rome, ItalyJan Cortvriend - European Commission, DG Environment, Water Unit, Brussels,BelgiumDonato Di Monte - The Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center, Sunnyvale, CA, USAHeidelore Fiedler - United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, Chemicals Branch,Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Châtelaine, Geneva, SwitzerlandIrene Figà-Talamanca - Department of Hygiene and Industrial Health, SapienzaUniversity of Rome, Rome, ItalyLetizia Gabaglio - Galileo Editorial Services, RomeGiuliana Gasparrini - Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory and Sea, Rome,ItalyPaul Hunter - School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia,Norwich, United KingdomDorota Jarosinska - Environment and Health Integrated Environmental Assessments,European Environment Agency, EEA, Copenhagen, DenmarkRaffaele Mattioli - Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organizations of theUnited Nations, FAO, Rome, ItalyChristine Majewki - Department of Strategy, European Food Safety Authority, EFSA,Parma, ItalyAngelo Moretto - Department of Occupational Environmental Health, Faculty ofMedicine, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyLarry Needham - Toxicology Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USANicola Pirrone - Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, National Research Council, CNR,Rende, Cosenza, ItalyMiquel Porta - Institute of Medical Research and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,IMIM & UAB, Barcelona, SpainLuciana Sinisi Environmental Determinants of Health, Superior Institute forEnvironmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Rome, ItalyMarcello Spanò - Section of Toxicology and Biomedical Sciences, Italian NationalAgency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, ENEACasaccia, Rome, Italy Jan G. Timmerman - Rijkswaterstaat, RWS, Centre for Water Management, Lelystad,The Netherlands

POSTER SESSION 1Wednesday, December 9, 20099.30 – 18.30Aula Marotta

TOPIC 1Health implications of climate changes -

The crucial role of water

1-1RECREATIONAL FISHING PONDS: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT INMEDITERRANEAN ECOREGIONFrancesca Anna Aulicino, Laura Mancini, Alfredo Ioppolo, Maria Grazia Cappella,Fabrizio Volpi, Stefania Marcheggiani, Camilla Puccinelli, Lorenzo Tancioni1-2NON-TUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA AND MICROBIAL POPULATIONS INDRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMSRossella Briancesco, Maurizio Semproni, Simonetta Della Libera, Massimo Sdanganelli,Lucia Bonadonna1-3NEW STRATEGIES FOR THE CHEMICAL MONITORING OF EUROPEAN WATERBODIES IN RELATION TO CLIMATE CHANGESStefano Polesello, Mario Carere, Philippe Quevauviller1-4BRAIN 1.2 AND DORSAL ROOT GANGLION 1.8 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUMCHANNEL ALPHA SUBUNITS EXPRESSED IN HEK293 CELLS TO COMPARECIGUATOXINS AND BREVETOXINS POTENCYValeria Dell’Ovo, Marie-Yasmine Bottein, Aurelia Tubaro, John S. Ramsdell1-5WORLDWIDE OCCURRENCE OF MYCOTOXINS IN FRUITS AND DERIVEDPRODUCTS. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONSMaría L. Fernández-Cruz, Marcia L. Mansilla, José L. Tadeo1-6A CASE STUDY OF SANITARY SURVEY ON COMMUNITY DRINKING WATERSUPPLIES AFTER A SEVERE (POST-TSUNAMI) FLOODING EVENT Emanuele Ferretti, Luca Lucentini, Lucia Bonadonna, Simonetta Della Libera, MaurizioSemproni, Massimo Ottaviani1-7CHALLENGES TO UNDERSTAND CHEMICAL IMPACTS ALONG AN URBAN-TO-RURAL GRADIENTRoberto Miniero, Annalaura Iamiceli, Gianfranco Brambilla, Elena De Felip, John M.Marzluff1-8FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE IS FIGHTING FOR “OUR“ LIVESAna Raquel Nunes

1-9METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF THE QUALITY OF WATER INTENDED FOR HUMANCONSUMPTION: STATE OF THE ART AND PERSPECTIVES AT ITALIAN AND EULEVELLuca Lucentini, Edoardo Menichini, Lucia Bonadonna, Emanuele Ferretti, Giovanni Citti,Mattea Chirico, Paola Pettine, Massimo Ottaviani1-10DERMOTOXICITY OF PALYTOXIN AFTER CUTANEOUS EXPOSURE Marco Pelin, Caterina Zanette, Chiara Florio, Nicola Ungaro, Silvio Sosa, Aurelia Tubaro1-11GLOBAL WARMING; CONSEQUENSES ON HUMAN ACTIVITIES & WATERRESOURCESReza Rahimi, Fereshteh Jaderi, Navid Mollaee, Sepideh Tavassoli1-12FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION BASED ON SATELLITE IMAGES Yaser Sadeghi, Jalal Amini1-13TOXIC AND GENOTOXIC EFFECTS OF VANADIUM IN VOLCANIC GROUNDWATERDESTINED TO HUMAN CONSUMPTIONEnrico Veschetti, Eugenia Cordelli, Riccardo Crebelli, Anna Maria Fresegna, PaolaLeopardi, Massimo Ottaviani, Ester Siniscalchi, Paola Villani1-14THE SIMULATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGICAL OF DESERTIFICATIONPHENOMENA IN LIBYAFathi Elosta1-15NON-CONVENTIONAL WATER RESOURCES IN COASTAL AREAS: REUSE OFSEAWATER THROUGH A BEACH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMLucia Bonadonna, Agnese Delicato, Simonetta Della Libera, Maurizio Semproni

TOPIC 2Persistent organic pollutants

and reproductive health

2-1MONITORING OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS IN ITALIAN SURFACE WATER ANDIN WATER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION BY LC-MS/MSLaura Achene, Sara Bogialli, Luca Lucentini, Massimo Ottaviani2-2EXPOSURE TO BISPHENOL A: SEX-RELATED REPRODUCTIVE RISKSLidia Caporossi, Alessandra Pera, Bruno Papaleo2-3ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS IN HUMAN ADIPOSE TISSUEFulvio Ferrara, Nicoletta Ademollo, Leopoldo Silvestroni, Enzo Funari

2-4PERSISTENT ORGANOCHLORINES IN HUMAN BREAST MILK FROM SOUTHBA KA, SERBIATamara Vukavi, Mirjana Vojinovi Miloradov, Jan Sui, Anelka Ristivojevi, Ivana Mihajlovi2-5THE HEART RATE AND BLOOD PRESSURE VARIATIONS DUE TOMETALWORKING FLUIDS EXPOSURE IN AN AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURINGPLANTAbbasali Mokhtari, Farideh Golbabaei, Ashkan Jalili, Amir Kasaiean2-6PROTECTING THE KISH ISLAND COASTAL MARINE ZONES BY PROVIDINGMANAGEMENT PLANS FOR SPILL AND OIL POLLUTIONMosayab Shirani, Mahbobeh Safarnejad, Farshid Morshedi2-7PCB AND PBDE LEVELS IN MOTHER’S MILK FROM ROMESilvia Alivernini, Luigi Turrio Baldassarri, Chiara Laura Battistelli

TOPIC 3 Urban air quality outdoor vs indoor

3-1COAL DUST IMPACT AND THE PRESENCE OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVEPULMONARY DISEASE IN EXPOSED WORKERS IN KOSOVO POWER PLANTSanije Shala-Xhemajli, Hajrullah Fejza, Enisa Fehmiu, Xhevdet Xhemajli3-2INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AIR VOCS IN URBAN AREASergio Fuselli, Marco De Felice, Roberta Morlino, Anna Santarsiero3-3EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT ON THEREGIONAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE HISTORICAL LAND-COVERCONVERSIONJehn-Yih Juang3-4TRANSCRIPTIONAL MODULATION OF A HUMAN MONOCYTIC CELL LINEEXPOSED TO PM10 FROM AN URBAN AREAEmanuela Bastonini, Loredana Verdone, Stefania Morrone, Angela Santoni, GaetanoSettimo, Giovanni Marsili, Ernesto Di Mauro, Micaela Caserta3-5THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION‘S BRONCHIAL DISEASES EVALUATION FORPREVENTION TODAYRosa Anna Perricone Somogyi3-6POLLUTION OF AN URBAN AREA HOSPITAL: AN INDOOR/OUTDOOR VOCSSTUDY Anna Santarsiero, Sergio Fuselli, Emanuela Ortolani

3-7EMISSION OF AIRBORNE SMELLING SUBSTANCES AND HEALTH RISKASSESSMENTGiovanni Ziemacki, Massimiliano Beccaloni, Stefano Moriconi, Fabrizia Colonna, FrancoPalmieri, Nicola Dell‘Amico

TOPIC 4The appraisal of health risk

from epidemiological and biomonitoring data

4-1FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINESDERIVED FROM PATIENTS AFFECTED BY MUTYH-ASSOCIATED POLYPOSISFlavia Barone, Elisabetta Pin, Maria Teresa Russo, Vitalba Ruggeri, Paolo Degan,Claudia Pastrello, Pietro Pichierri, Alessandra Viel, Margherita Bignami4-2ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH RISKS FROM AMBIENT PAH EXPOSUREAlena Bartonova, Mirek Dostal, Eva Rychlikova, Radim Sram4-3BIOMONITORING OF THE ITALIAN POPULATION EXPOSED TO ENVIRONMENTALMETALS: THE PROBE PROJECTBeatrice Bocca, Daniela Mattei, Anna Pino, Alessandro Alimonti4-4EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF CONTAMINATED SITES: AIMS, PROCEDURESAND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF THE ITALIAN SENTIERI PROJECT Pietro Comba, Francesco Bianchi, Susanna Conti, Ivano Iavarone, Marco Martuzzi, Lo-redana Musmeci, Roberta Pirastu, SENTIERI Working Group4-5DEPLETED URANIUM IN HAIR BY ISOTOPE RATIO QUADRUPOLE INDUCTIVELYCOUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY Sonia D’Ilio, Nicola Violante, Oreste Senofonte, Costanza Majorani, Francesco Petrucci4-6A CHRONIC IN VIVO EXPOSURE TO FURAN INDUCE OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGEAND MICRONUCLEIGabriele De Luca, Maria Teresa Russo, Paola Leopardi, Patrizia Cremona, PaoloDegan, Tania Pannellini, Piero Musiani, Margherita Bignami4-7DROWNING AND NEAR-DROWNING IN SWIMMING POOLS IN ITALY:EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA DERIVED FROM THE PUBLIC PRESS IN 2008-2009Stefania De Angelis, Giancarlo Donati, Marina Torre, Lucia Bonadonna4-8HUMAN BIOMONITORING OF HEAVY METALS IN THE VICINITY OF NON-FERROUS METALS INDUSTRIES IN ATH, WALLONIASébastien Fierens, Javiera Rebolledo, Vincent Haufroid, Ann Versporten, Ethel Brits,Pierre De Plaen, Herman Van Oyen, An Van Nieuwenhuyse

4-9EXPOSURE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION OF SARDINIA (ITALY) TO CADMIUMFROM SMOKING CIGARETTES Giovanni Forte, Roberto Madeddu, Yolande Asara, Paola Tolu, Beatrice Bocca4-10RESIDENTIAL PESTICIDES EXPOSURE AND MELANOMACristina Fortes, Simona Mastroeni, Franco Melchi, Maria Antonietta Pilla, Massimo Alotto,Gianluca Antonelli, Diana Campione, Simone Bolli, Elizabeta Luchetti, Paolo Pasquini4-11ASSESSMENT OF CYTOTOXICITY AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCED BY THECARCINOGEN FURAN IN LIVER AND SPLEEN CELLS OF B6C3F1 MICEPaola Leopardi, Eugenia Cordelli, Paola Villani, Caterina Macrì, Fiorella Malchiodi-Albedi, Stefania Caiola, Andrea Zijno, Gabriele De Luca, Riccardo Crebelli4-12ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL RISK OF CANCER - PERCEPTION ANDAWARENESS STUDIES AMONG STUDENTSAntonina Cebulska-Wasilewska, Renata Majewska, Zbigniew Drg, Paweł Migula4-13GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF TOXICITY AND DNA DAMAGE RESPONSEGENES IN THE LIVER OF FURAN-TREATED MICEFrancesca Marcon, Paola Leopardi, Ester Siniscalchi, Luigi Conti, Riccardo Crebelli4-14EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS MIGRATED FROM PACKAGING TO FOODS:MIGRATION OF COMPONENTS OF PRINTING INKSMaria Rosaria Milana, Marinella Collauto, Massimo Denaro, Roberta Feliciani, CinziaGesumundo, Silvia Giamberardini, Antonino Maggio, Antonella Maini, Giorgio Padula,Oronzo Panico4-15STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND RESIDENTIAL RISKS OF PETROCHEMICALEMPLOYEES IN GELA POLLUTED SITE, ITALYRoberto Pasetto, Amerigo Zona, Achille Cernigliaro, Roberta Pirastu, GabriellaDardanoni, Sebastiano Pollina Addario, Salvatore Scondotto, Pietro Comba4-16CADMIUM CONCENTRATION IN BIOLOGICAL MEDIA OF BREAST CANCERPATIENTSLoreta Strumylaite, Algirdas Bogusevicius, Oleg Abdrakhmanov, Dale Baranauskiene,Rima Kregzdyte, Darius Pranys, Lina Poskiene4-17ITALIAN SURVEYS OF BEHAVIOUR AND LIFESTYLES AFFECTING EXPOSURETO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTSCaterina Vollono, Anna Bastone, Maria Eleonora Soggiu4-18ASSESSMENT OF TOXIC METALS IN EYE SHADOWS: A PILOT STUDYBeatrice Bocca, Maria Ciprotti, Daniela De Orsi, Luigi Gagliardi, Sergio Costantini4-19COLLECTION AND EVALUATION OF NOTIFIED CASES OF WATERBORNEDISEASES IN THE AREA OF ROME, ITALY Lucia Bonadonna, Rossella Briancesco, Marco Di Porto

4-20SURVEY ON MINOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC BIOTAAS INDICATORS OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL-SCALE POLLUTIONPaola Bottoni, Sergio Caroli4-21DNA REPAIR MECHANISMS IN PAEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES:POTENTIAL CLINIC IMPLICATIONSIda Casorelli, Paola De Angelis, Cinzia Bascietto, Federica Chiera, Eliana Lupari, PaoloDegan, Margherita Bignami, Eugenia Dogliotti, Luigi Dall’Oglio, Paola Fortini4-22THE RESPONSE TO DNA DAMAGE OF TERMINALLY DIFFERENTIATED CELLSPaola Fortini, Laura Narciso, Roberta Castino, Deborah Pajalunga, Eleonora Puggioni,Barbara Pascucci, Marco Crescenzi, Ciro Isidoro, Eugenia Dogliotti4-23THE ROLE OF COCKAYNE SYNDROME PROTEINS IN THE REPAIR OF ENDOGE-NOUS DNA DAMAGETiziana Lemma, Paolo Degan, Eleonora Parlanti, Barbara Pascucci, Angelo SalvatoreCalcagnile, Laura Narciso, Valeria Simonelli, Miria Stefanini, Jan de Wit, Gijsbertus T.J.van der Horst, Eugenia Dogliotti, Maria Rosaria D’Errico4-24THE ROLE OF NER DAMAGE RECOGNITION FACTORS IN THE REPAIR OF OX-IDATIVE DNA LESIONSEleonora Parlanti, Maria Rosaria D’Errico, Tiziana Lemma, Paolo Degan, Ingrid van derPluijm, Gijsbertus T.J. van der Horst, Denis S.F. Biard, Eugenia Dogliotti4-25LOSS OF MLH1 IS ASSOCIATED WITH UPREGULATION OF DNA POLYMERASEBETA IN GASTRIC CANCERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHEMIOTHERAPYValeria Simonelli, Maria Rosaria D’Errico, Domenico Palli, Alessandro Giuliani, Euge-nia Dogliotti4-26LYMPHOCYTES FROM INDIVIDUALS CARRYING THE OGG1-S326C POLYMOR-PHIC VARIANT PRESENT A LOWER CLEAVAGE ACTIVITY OF 8-OXOGUANINE:EFFECTS OF GENE EXPRESSION AND OXIDATION STATUSValeria Simonelli, Filomena Mazzei, Maria Rosara D’Errico, Simonetta Guarrera, FlaviaBarone, Serena Camerini, Laura Narciso, Anna Minoprio, Alessandra Allione, MarcoCrescenzi, Magnar Bjoras, Giuseppe Matullo, Eugenia Dogliotti

POSTER SESSION 2Thursday, December 10, 20099.30 – 18.30Aula Marotta

TOPIC 5Emerging pathogenic microorganisms –

Need for a better understandingof human health implications

5-1MARINE EMERGING PATHOGENS: NEED AND TOOLLuciana Croci, Loredana Cozzi, Elisabetta Suffredini, Stefania Marcheggiani, CamillaPuccinelli, Laura Mancini, Francesca Anna Aulicino5-2MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HUMAN NOROVIRUS GENOGROUP I AND II INURBAN SEWAGES IN DIVERSE GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS IN ITALYGiuseppina La Rosa, Marcello Iaconelli, Manoochehr Pourshaban, Michele Muscillo5-3QUANTITATIVE DETECTION OF ENTERIC VIRUSES IN INFLUENT AND EFFLUENTSAMPLES FROM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTSManoochehr Pourshaban, Giuseppina La Rosa, Marcello Iaconelli, Michele Muscillo5-4ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA IN TWOHOSPITALS IN MILANMarina Tesauro, Michela Consonni, Annalisa Bianchi, Fabrizio Pregliasco, MariaGabriella Galli5-5MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN VEGETABLES FOOD: AN INTEGRATEDAPPROACH FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTLaura Toti, Giancarlo Durante, Paola Picotto, Raffaello Lena, Elisabetta Delibato, SimonaDi Pasquale, Dario De Medici, Federico Capuano, Vincenzo Caligiuri, Renzo Mioni,Francesca Anna Aulicino, Laura Mancini, Raffaele Scenati, Stefania Marcheggiani,Maria De Giusti, Ida Luzzi5-6AUTOMATIC FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS OF DISINFECTANT RESIDUES INHOSPITAL HOT WATER NETWORKS DISINFECTED AGAINST LEGIONELLA WITHH2O2-AGEnrico Veschetti, Laura Achene, Emanuele Ferretti, Valentina Melini, Maria Luisa Ricci,Massimo Ottaviani

TOPIC 6The environmental hypothesisin neurodegenerative diseases

6-1EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES AND RISK OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERALSCLEROSIS: A POPULATION-BASED CASE-CONTROL STUDYFrancesca Bonvicini, Marco Vinceti6-2A RAT MODEL OF EARLY PHASES OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE: AN INNOVATIVETOOL TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THEONSET AND PROGRESSION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERSIvana D‘Andrea, Igor Branchi, Monica Armida, Tommaso Cassano, Antonella Pèzzola,Rosa Luisa Potenza, Maria Grazia Morgese, Patrizia Popoli, Enrico Alleva6-3ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DECREASEDREELIN LEVELS, MALE SEX, AND MERCURY EXPOSUREFlavio Keller, Filippo Biamonte, Laura Latini, Maria Teresa Viscomi, Marco Molinari,Sonia D’Ilio, Costanza Majorani, Francesco Petrucci, Nicola Violante, Oreste Senofonte6-4POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SELENIUM IN THE ETIOLOGYOF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSISMarco Vinceti, Francesca Bonvicini, Margherita Bergomi, Carlotta Malagoli

TOPIC 7Waste management

7-1PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE DISPOSAL IN A DISUSED OPEN QUARRY:ASSESSMENT OF ITS EFFECTS ON A GROUNDWATERAnna Barra Caracciolo, Paola Grenni7-2EFFECTS OF IRON NANOPARTICLES FROM SOIL OR GROUNDWATERREMEDIATION ON MEDAKA (ORYZIAS LATIPES) FISHPei-Jen Chen, Chih-Shiang Su, Chi-Yen Tsen7-3RISK ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE APPLLIED TO LANDFILLFederica Scaini, Maria Rita Cicero, Sabrina Fasciani, Cristina Romanello7-4EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE HEALTH IMPACT OF TOXIC WASTE DUMPINGSITES IN CAMPANIA Lucia Fazzo, Marco De Santis, Pietro Comba7-5AIRBORNE MICROORGANISMS RELATED TO WASTE MANAGEMENT ANDRECOVERY: BIOMONITORING METHODOLOGIESAnna Maria Coccia, Paola Margherita Bianca Gucci, Ines Lacchetti, Rosa Paradiso

7-6HEALTH RISKS FROM HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL: THE NEED FORINTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION Daniela Marsili, Lucia Fazzo, Pietro Comba7-7THE IMPACT MEASURE OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ON HEALTH: THEWASTE INDEXLoredana Musmeci, Mirella Bellino, Fabrizio Falleni, Augusta Piccardi7-8RISK ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE APPLIED TO LANDFILLFederica Scaini, Maria Rita Cicero, Sabrina Fasciani, Cristina Romanello7-9GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTALCRITICALITY IN SUBURBAN AREAS WITH DUMPING SITES IN SOUTHERN ITALYStefania Trinca, Luciana Cossa, Giovanna Martini7-10MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATION:THE ITALIAN SITUATIONGiuseppe Viviano, Gaetano Settimo, Pasquale De Stefanis, Giovanni Marsili7-11CONSTRUCTED WETLAND PERFORMANCE FOR THE REUSE OFZOOTECHNICAL WASTEWATER: FATE OF GIARDIA AND CRYPTOSPORIDIUMRossella Briancesco, Lucia Bonadonna7-12OPEN DUMPING OF SOLID WASTE AND THE IMPACT ON HEALTH (A CASESTUDY OF SLUM IN UNIT 7 LATIFABAD) SINDH PAKISTANKhadija Qureshi Inamulah Bhatti, Kamram A. Qureshii7-13DETERMINANTS OF THE SUCCESS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE RECYCLINGPRACTICES IN ITALIAN REGIONS: MODELS OF GOVERNANCEFerruccio Pelone, Vito Cerabona, Andrea Poscia, Marta Marino, Antonio Giulio De Belvis Umberto Moscato, Walter Ricciardi

TOPIC 8The impact of agricultural activities

on environment and health

8-1THE MOUSE MODEL OF CYPRESS ALLERGY: A NEW CONTRIBUTION TO THEEVALUATION OF THE HEALTH RISK OF THE REFORESTATIONLucia Gabriele, Giovanna Schiavoni, Fabrizio Mattei, Massimo Sanchez, Paola Sestili,Claudia Afferni8-2DETERMINATION OF MALACHIT GREEN AS AN ENDOCRINE DISRUPTER INTROUT TISSUE AND WATER OF THE FISH FARMSMohammad Mehdi Amin, Abbas Khodabakhshi, Hojjat Sadeghi, Soleiman Kheiri, MehdiHajian

8-3AGRICULTURAL SOILS POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED: RISK ASSESSMENTPROCEDURE CASE STUDIESEleonora Beccaloni, Fabiana Vanni, Silvana Giovannangeli, Mario Carere8-4CHLORPYRIFOS BIOTRANSFORMATION: WHICH IS THE METABOLICCONTRIBUTION OF HUMAN SMALL INTESTINE TO TOTAL METABOLISM?Claudia Leoni, Maria Balduzzi, Emma Di Consiglio, Laura Turco, Franca Maria Buratti,Emanuela Testai8-5CHILDREN‘S HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES:NEUROBEHAVIOURAL EFFECTS OF THE ORGANOPHOSPHATECHLORPYRIFOS IN ANIMAL MODELSGemma Calamandrei, Aldina Venerosi Pesciolini, Angela Rungi, Maria Luisa Scattoni,Laura Ricceri8-6REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS BY SUPERCRITICAL EXTRACTION:ATRAZINE CASETeresa Castelo-Grande, Paulo A. Augusto, Paulo Monteiro, Angel M. Estevez, DomingosBarbosa8-7COMPARISON OF NEW METHODS WITH INTENSIVE METHOD FOR COLLECTINGARTHROPODS DATA IN RICE FIELDChaigarun Supaporn, Kessomboon Nusaraporn, Kessomboon Pattapong, SomboonSingkiburt, Peerayos Khangkhan, Thinkhamrop Bandit8-8PESTICIDES IN ITALIAN FRESHWATER AND RELATED RISK TO HUMAN HEALTHLuca Fava, Maria Antonietta Orrù, Simona Scardala, Elena Alonzo, Maristella Fardella,Caterina Strumia, Angiolo Martinelli, Sabrina Finocchiaro, Massimo Previtera,Alessandro Franchi, Piergiuseppe Calà, Mauro Dovis, Donatella Bartoli, GiuseppeSartori, Lia Broglia, Enzo Funari8-9INDIAN SCENARIO ON PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN WATER RESOURCESTanu Jindal, Khushbu Gulathi8-10MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTASSESSMENT OF INLAND AQUACULTURELaura Mancini, Francesca Anna Aulicino, Stefania Marcheggiani, Anna Maria D‘Angelo,Elio Pierdominici, Camilla Puccinelli, Raffaele Scenati, Lorenzo Tancioni8-11MEASUREMENT OF RESIDUES OF COMMONLY USED INSECTICIDES(ENDOSULFAN AND PHOSALON) FOR CONTROLLING COLORADO POTATOBEETLEFatemeh Nasehi, Ghadir Nouri Ghanbalani, Mohammad Zaeefizade, Hussein Shahbazi8-12PESTICIDES AND FILIPINO RICE FARMERS HEALTH Florencia G. Palis, Satish Kedia

8-13REVIEW OF LABEL CLASSIFICATION OF ITALIAN PLANT PROTECTIONPRODUCTS AFTER SECOND ADAPTATION OF THE DIRECTIVE 99/45/EULaura Fornarelli, Susanna Bascherini, Maristella Rubbiani8-14ANALYSIS OF HERBICIDE RESIDUES BY QUECHERS METHOD IN THEFRAMEWORK OF NATIONAL REFERENCE LABORATORY FOR SINGLEMETHODSAngela Santilio, Patrizia Stefanelli, Silvana Girolimetti, Roberto Dommarco8-15TERBUTHYLAZINE IN ITALIAN WATER BODIES Paola Bottoni, Luca Lucentini, Massimo Ottaviani8-16PESTICIDES CONTAMINATION IN FOOD: METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OFPESTICIDE RESIDUES IN EGGSPatrizia Pelosi, Tiziana Generali, Graziella Amendola, Roberto Dommarco8-17PHYTOREMEDIATION OF ARSENIC CONTAMINATED SOIL USINGBIODEGRADABLE CHELATING LIGAND HYDROXYIMINODISUCCINIC ACID(HIDS) Mohammed Azizur Rahman, Kohta Kadohashi, Teruya Maki, Hiroshi Hasegawa8-18ROLE OF DNA POLYMERASE KAPPA IN THE CYTOTOXIC PROCESSING OF O6-METHYLGUANINE IN HUMAN CELLSIlenia Ventura, Eliana Lupari, Francesca Marcon, Gabriele Aquilina, Eugenia Dogliotti,Margherita Bignami, Paola Fortini8-19THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ON ECOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE IN RURAL COMMUNITIESNarine Harutyunyan